How child support affects FTB Part A payment rates
The more child support you receive or are entitled to, the less FTB you may get. This is called the Maintenance Income Test.
What happens if we update your child support assessment while you get FTB Part A
If circumstances change for you or the other parent, we’ll update your child support assessment. This means your FTB payments may change too.
When you have a child support agreement while you get FTB Part A
You need to know how this affects your FTB.
Family Tax Benefit Part A balancing and child support
If you get Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A and child support, we’ll check you got the right amount of FTB when we balance your payments.
Paying child support by Private Collect or self-management
Paying parents who use Private Collect or self management to make child support payments don’t need to tell us about these arrangements.
Paying child support by non-agency payments
Paying parents can make direct payments or third party transfers that fall outside of regular child support payments.
- Limited child support agreement
- How to manage a limited child support agreement
Limited child support agreements affect your family payments
We’ll make a notional assessment after we accept your agreement. The notional assessment is the child support that would apply if you didn’t have an agreement.
- Limited child support agreement
- How to manage a limited child support agreement
End a Limited child support agreement
You or the other parent can end a limited agreement.
- Court ordered periodic child maintenance
- What you need to do
Court order expiry for child maintenance payments
Child maintenance orders will end at a specified time, or when a particular event occurs.
- Court ordered periodic child maintenance
- How to manage court ordered periodic child maintenance
Submit your court order for child maintenance payments
Once you have a child maintenance order from the court you can then notify us of the order.